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Re: Decade stats

cartoken — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:46:04 GMT

Author: cartoken

Posted: 06/26/2010 06:46

Bork wrote:

Riskin' that it becomes common knowledge that I'm a bit of a statistics nerd, I played around with my list of rated albums and noted that the average rating differed wildly between the decades. Not surprised to see the results really, but here is hard evidence that the 70's were the best decade in music (I just calculated the average rating of all the albums I have rated so far):

1970's 80 point av. (144 rated albums)
1980's 75 point av. (102 rated albums)
1960's 70 point av. (85 rated albums)
1950's 70 point av. (29 rated albums)
1990's 65 point av. (75 rated albums)
2000's 60 point av. (120 rated albums)
2010's 55 point av. (16 rated albums)

It is thus established that in the 1970's the albums were on average 33% better than they were in the 2000's.

statistically (scientifically) speaking your results are not significant.

Re: Decade stats

Cryptozoologist — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:52:21 GMT

Author: Cryptozoologist

Posted: 06/26/2010 00:52

[quote="RFNAPLES"]"Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'"--Mark Twain

You might be interested in:
Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics (illust. I. Geis), Norton, New York, 1954, ISBN 0393310728[/quote]

At first I didn't agree with this, but then I read it more carefully and realized you took the words right out of my mouth

Re: Decade stats

Charicature — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:59:56 GMT

Author: Charicature

Posted: 06/24/2010 00:59

Bork wrote:

Congratulations! You're offically a stodgy old codger 😉

Re: Decade stats

RFNAPLES — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:05:02 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 06/23/2010 22:05

"Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'"--Mark Twain

You might be interested in:
Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics (illust. I. Geis), Norton, New York, 1954, ISBN 0393310728

Decade stats

Bork — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:14:40 GMT

Author: Bork

Posted: 06/23/2010 21:14

Riskin' that it becomes common knowledge that I'm a bit of a statistics nerd, I played around with my list of rated albums and noted that the average rating differed wildly between the decades. Not surprised to see the results really, but here is hard evidence that the 70's were the best decade in music (I just calculated the average rating of all the albums I have rated so far):

1970's 80 point av. (144 rated albums)
1980's 75 point av. (102 rated albums)
1960's 70 point av. (85 rated albums)
1950's 70 point av. (29 rated albums)
1990's 65 point av. (75 rated albums)
2000's 60 point av. (120 rated albums)
2010's 55 point av. (16 rated albums)

It is thus established that in the 1970's the albums were on average 33% better than they were in the 2000's.